2014 trend forecasts, big data will be mainstream

The forecast for this article comes from a group of companies that analyze the industry, including an enterprise software company (Tibco,spotfire), a publicly traded business intelligence company (Tableau), a start-up that analyzes application platforms (Alteryx), A major NoSQL supplier (Basho), as well as a customer analysis company (Gainsight). They predict that the primary theme of 2014 's Big data technology is that big data technology will become mainstream, the analysis of highly specialized areas becomes easier, the impact of cloud computing and mobile Internet influence continues to increase, the sustained explosion of data driven by equipment and machines, and the destruction of the database market currently held by large suppliers.

Become mainstream or bankrupt

In this part of the big data mainstream, Alteryx predicts that people's attitudes toward Hadoop will shift from curiosity to "critical" treatment. Gainsight predicts that 2014 will be a crucial year for big data, and people are beginning to really explain big data. Tibco's Ctomatt Quinn that "large data and all its tools and technologies will move from scientific experimentation to day-to-day business decision making."

Another expression of the increasingly mainstream of analytical technology is that it becomes more applicable. Alteryx predicts that in 2014 "Big data will generate a game in marketing and that predictive analysis will no longer be an expert discipline". Tableau agrees with this view, speculating that "predictive analysis-once advanced and professional system areas will go mainstream, companies looking for forward-looking, not backward insights from the data." "The big data will be more value-oriented," explains Tibco's Quinn, explaining that "the challenge we face is no longer to store data, but to get value from data."

Everyone in the future is a data scientist.

Some of the group's companies predict that with the popularization of analytical tools, data scientists will gradually walk down the "altar". Tableau unexpectedly predicted "the end of data scientists," and said "familiarity with data analysis will become an essential skill for ordinary business users, rather than an expert's unique skills".

Alteryx, who responded to this prediction with his own "modern analysts are more important than data scientists", said that "using large data and analysis techniques to arm business sector analysts is more effective than increasing the employment of data scientists".

Cloud and mobile

Tableau predicts that the 2014 "cloud business intelligence will become mainstream" is a bit ironic because the company only unveiled its payment version of cloud Solutions this year. It also predicts that "big data will eventually go to the clouds". "SaaS will be a determinant," Gainsight said, "Although this is a whole industry as a whole, we can be quite certain that it works in a world of great data in an outstanding way." Basho even said that "CIOs will be cloud operators, and this will lead to many companies deploying a range of public and private cloud solutions."

Tibco's view of big data and cloud computing can be seen in the predictions that "big data will be used for security/cloud computing". Quinn expanded the idea, saying that "big data will be stored and analyzed in the cloud, and I hope that 2014 will be a lot of data coming from the cloud services of the PAAs platform."

Data explosion

According to most forecasters, the number of data and the rate of growth have not stopped. As I said, Alteryx mobile devices and location data will become important data sources. Basho has two related predictions, he says, "the Internet of things goes to the golden age, accelerates the data explosion" and "the customer experience will be measured in milliseconds, not seconds."

The destruction of complexity

Not surprisingly, Alteryx, as a start-up, concludes that "with the new database, analytics, and virtualization solutions, a new data and analysis stack will emerge, completely disrupting the traditional solutions for large vendors." Based on the idea of a new stack, Tableau predicts that 2014 "NoSQL technology will become more popular because companies are looking for ways to absorb this type of data".

This is a double-edged sword: Basho that the new stack intrusion it will cause it to need some help, it is expected that "tight enterprise it will require the ease of operation of the supplier." "Gainsight may agree that 2014 will be" a significant year for the initial public offerings of corporate technology. "

Personal opinion

I think these technology companies may miss out on several important potential developments next year: Hadoop will become more integrated, and traditional databases will adapt to nosql/data workloads and have a convergence trend. With the release of Hadoop2.0 and yarn, Hadoop is no longer dependent on the MapReduce algorithm and batch processing. Therefore, it becomes more like a platform or a distributed data processing engine rather than a "product". In addition, the ability to process key/value data, JSON objects/documents, sparse columns, and other NoSQL data has been shown in related products, such as DB2 and Vertica, and this trend will continue.

With the integration and integration of products, I believe that the next company will also have the trend of integration. The large data world has been activated, similar to the M&A activities experienced by the BI World in the 2007.